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Affliction makes British leader delicate (6)

Ross

I think it could be either:

blight

alight

'affliction' is the definition.
(blight is a kind of disease)

'british leader delicate' is the wordplay.
'leader' indicates taking the first letters.
'delicate' becomes 'light' ('light' can be similar in meaning to 'delicate').
The first letter of 'british' is 'b'.
'b'+'light'='BLIGHT'

'makes' is the link.

(Other definitions for blight that I've seen before include "Problem of plants or urban development" , "Fungal disease - destructive force" , "Spoil - plant disease" , "Withering disease (in plants)" , "Curse - plague" .)

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